Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Ben Lawrence; Cynthia Mann

important tasks involved with engineering product andprocess design. This course is also part of a larger effort towards introducing students toentrepreneurship concepts.During the multi-week design project portion of the course, students are given a vaguely wordedopen-ended market-driven design problem, and asked to find a solution. The problem is basedaround food, such as pizza or ice cream, and is designed to be fun. Group dynamics, projectplanning, problem definition, brainstorming, experiment design, and creativity are some of themajor points discussed. The project culminates with the student presenting their solutions totheir peers and demonstrating any prototypes they developed.IntroductionCollege students typically do not see engineering as

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Koehnemann; Barbara Gannod

meet with customers to prioritize requirements, estimate resources, and produce an iteration plan.Simple Design The system design should be as simple as possible so that it is easy to understand, implement, and change.Testing Programmers as well as customers write test units. Software is tested incrementally and frequently, and tests must be passed before development can continue.Collective Code Ownership Anyone on the development team can modify any part of the system at any time. Thus, there are no delays in making changes while waiting for others to submit important modifications.Refactoring Refactoring is rewriting code to remove duplication and to simplify the code. As code is added incrementally, redundancies and

Conference Session

ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kraemer; Bijan Pashaie; David Probst

requiring physics or engineering physics majorswould be of interest to our majors because one of our engineering faculty members would needto be involved in order to provide the engineering design content.The first few weeks of the course are spent covering introductory topics. The first week is spentintroducing the problem, clarifying expectations and processes for the course, and discussingresources for conducting research on the problem. The second week focuses on communicationsissues such as writing styles, written and oral communication within the group and to others Page 9.1090.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Student Teams and Active Learning

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Raviv

Engineering Education The following comics problem is another non-technical introductory problem to the“Eight Dimensions”. Students were asked to write down solutions, first without the methodologyand later with it. In the beginning the average number of ideas was about five per student.However, when students were asked to use the methodology and its sub strategies to findsolutions, the number of ideas generated by each student varied from 15 to 35. These includeideas that are “unacceptable, non-feasible, expensive, too imaginative, unmarketable, useless,etc.”The comics problem Every morning T and G sit on the opposite sides of the table trying to read the samecomics section of the newspaper at the same time.Q: How can they both read it

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Carney; Michael Nolan; James Lampe; Raymond Thompson

include:currency, use of public transportation, a specific museum, etc. All of these presentations will becombined into a text prior to departure. Each student will receive this booklet as well as otherpertinent information. It will, in effect, become a custom guidebook for the trip. During the trip,students must keep detailed notes about their assigned topic. At the conclusion of the trip, theywill be responsible for writing a paper that details their assigned topic. They must also write acomprehensive evaluation of the trip from their perspective. This book will be compiled (with Page 8.43.4 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Diggelman; Michael McGeen

required to do a research project on a subject of theirchoice and to write a report (five pages maximum per person) summarizing theirfindings, on which they make a brief presentation (less than 10 minutes) to the class.These presentations are peer-reviewed by their classmates.We decided to take an inclusive approach to developing course content on materials andgive members of the department an opportunity to participate in the sifting andwinnowing process later. The first working draft of AE-1231 included a list of all of theconstruction materials covered in the three existing courses. All of the lecture notes fromthe existing courses were sorted by construction material and included in the draftoutline.ASTM standards referenced in previous

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Narasingarao Sreenath

global issues—from climate change to AIDS, demographictransition, aging, carrying capacity, resource use (E.g.: water, energy, labor) etc.Dominant relationships, hierarchical modeling and techniques for combining thequantitative with the qualitative are used. A teaching tool has been developed withmodels and real-life data, which the students use in classroom exercises, as well as on aresearch project as a course requirement. The approach has been used for several years inundergraduate, university-wide course. The opportunity is provided for the students tointeract with peers in foreign countries on the selected global issues via the Internet. In Section 2 we will discuss the methodology used. Hierarchy and multilevelmodeling approach is

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian S Macherone; Jagdish T. Gajjar; Cherrice Traver

element of the design and engineering process was stressed with a particular emphasis oncommunicating ideas to peers as well as those of other disciplines.The last week was used for public presentations of the project to an audience that was completelyunfamiliar with the project. The objective was to leave the spectators with an understanding ofwhat the team was attempting to accomplish, the problems encountered, the solutions devisedand the final results.Lab time was used initially to build the prerequisite knowledge base for each project team.Topics of these lessons and exercises covered a diverse range including electronics to supportsensors and signal conditioning, microprocessor programming, Unix and WWW programmingand the mechanical design

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and two invited book chapters. He serves on the conference committee for the International Conference on Wear of Materials and has been recognized for his accomplishments with the Young Engineering Faculty Research Award and Early Achievement in Teaching Award at Iowa State University. He received his B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India), followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He is a member of ASEE, ASME, and ASM

Conference Session

Student Development and Assessment in IE Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaseen Mahmud, Morgan State University; Masud Salimian, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

extend them to realworld problems. Since assessment of student development in three of the above four categoriesis not an easy task, the majority of schools[6] that offer OR courses have their main focus on theimplementation of the third item (developing operational skills).Based on that, students learn how to perform the simplex method, its iterations, write the dualproblem, and perform sensitivity analysis with or without the use of software. An instructorspends many hours trying to teach the procedural steps which are tedious, repetitive, and requirecareful attention to the details, but it is easy to learn.The concepts, on the other hand, require a higher learning mechanism and instructorstraditionally find insufficient time for such

Conference Session

Topics in Computer Science and Programming

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Dean Palmer, Northern Arizona University; Eck Doerry, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

out brackets,rules, and time limits so that the audience could clearly seewho was winning at any given moment…and so we could Figure  3.  A  Digital  Carnival  poster  jointly  award a winner immediately at the end of the carnival. sponsored  with  SUN  Entertainment.  Being computer scientists, our ACM members saw this asa software problem and responded by writing a sophisticated program to manage competitionbrackets and scoring, as well as an elaborate on-line preregistration system. Nonetheless, humanjudges remained important to monitor the events, verify the scores, and input the data.The third problem we identified centered around finding a viable financial model for the DigitalCarnival or, better yet, finding a way to turn

Conference Session

High School Students Thinking and Performance

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

knowledge and conceptual knowledge can be challenging. Ideally,teachers would be able to trace thinking through the design rationale as the design proceeds, notjust retrospectively or from static project artifacts. They would also be able to use technology tosupplement teaching documentation and communication. The use of technology and culturaltechnology methods of communication has potential to impact assessment in K-12 engineeringeducation. Seventy-five percent of teens have cell phones2 and over 50% of teenagers 17 andyounger have access to the Internet outside of school and send email or text messages at leastonce a week. Twitter and other text-messaging tools help to motivate and encourage students todo more writing and encourage interactions

Conference Session

Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Crown, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

experiencesthat promote STEM play a critical role in many students’ lives in these important transitionyears. The methods and long term impact of one such program with a twenty-six year trackrecord of attracting and preparing minority students is examined. The Pre-Freshman EngineeringProgram (PREP) is an educational summer program aimed at Hispanic middle and high schoolstudents to increase educational preparedness and interest in STEM fields. The three yearacademic program that serves middle and high school students interested in STEM runs sevenweeks each summer. Courses (Introduction to Engineering, Logic, Computer Science, AlgebraicStructures, Introduction to Physics, Problem Solving, Introduction to Probability and Statistics,and Technical Writing

Conference Session

General Topics in Graduate Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Pariyothorn, Texas A&M University; Robin L. Autenrieth, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

by contributing to ongoing faculty research projects or pursuing anindependent research topic. More than 555 participants have completed the USRG program sincethe summer of 2000.The objectives of the program are to: 1) provide immersive research experience(s) forengineering undergraduates; 2) increase participant’s interest in pursuing graduate studies withan emphasis on the Ph.D. program; 3) increase participant’s awareness of the graduate schoolexperience; 4) provide an outlet to enhance participant’s writing and communications skills; 5)increase participant’s understanding of the graduate school application process for admissionsand fellowships; and subsequently, 6) position participants to be more competitive for graduateadmissions and

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jared P. Coyle, Drexel University; Adam K. Fontecchio, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

wereunfamiliar with what they saw, they were encouraged to write this. If there were topics ofparticular interest to a specific group, they were also encouraged to indicate that in their graffiti.As a result, a set of 14 metro maps containing anecdotal evidence of student backgroundknowledge was generated. The information that the students wrote down was characterized in 5ways: Total response (Did the students give any response at all?), Positive and NegativeResponse (Did the students respond positively or negatively to the idea?) and Informed andUninformed Response (Did the students demonstrate pre-existing and accurate knowledge abouta subject?).This graffiti method is also being carried out during the middle of the year in January and againat the end

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Brigade; Laura Deam; La Toya Coley; Jessica Linck; Jan Kidwell; Elizabeth Goodson; Brent Robinson; Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

and one middle school asscience, math, and technology resources and co-teachers. They have worked with over 1500elementary and middle school students and over 100 teachers to date.IntroductionThe outreach program at the College of Engineering at NC State includes a GK-12 grant fromthe National Science Foundation aimed at using engineering students from the university level toenhance math, science and technology instruction. The grant was written and put in place as aresponse to two perceived problems. First, national reports indicate that U. S. students in K-12schools currently lag behind their peers in other countries in math and science achievement1.And second, recruitment efforts directed toward women have stagnated for many Colleges

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

dimensions of the project, (c) implications for multidisciplinary teamwork, (d) importantglobal and society considerations, and finally (e) lifelong learning issues. As with the previousdeliverable, the average grade was a B+. Most students were able to write meaningfuldescriptions of these outcomes and to make connections between the outcomes and their projectactivities.In the final phase of the project, students were to work in teams, to use their individualmilestones as input information, and to develop their educational tool describing IE. Of thegroups, one created a website, one created a set of brochures, and the remaining five groupscreated some variation of a poster. Two of the posters are currently on display in the industrialengineering

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Regan; Katherine Sanders; Donald Evans; Chris Carlson-Dakes; Cesar Malave; Ardie Walser; Jack McGourty; Richard Felder

development of faculty, particularly thosefrom under-represented populations such as women and ethnic minorities. The primaryobjectives of the faculty development program are to engage veteran and young faculty inECSEL’s theme of learning by design; to deal with diversity issues; to improve the prospects ofyoung faculty for success; and to change the tenure and promotion process.• In 1996 a four-day workshop was held at Penn State for young faculty and graduate students from ECSEL schools and nine other universities from outside the coalition. The workshop topics included basics of course design, research funding and proposal writing, and time management. A Junior Faculty Development Workshop was held at the 1997 ASEE Annual Conference

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor F. Medina; Valarie Akerson; Nina Wang

report on their work, thereby improving writing skills. The students alsopresented their project orally at the end of the course.The study spanned the spring semester. The class was comprised of seven students. Sixwere obtaining a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering. The seventhstudent was taking the course as an upper division Civil Engineering elective. Their agesranged between 27 and 50, with a mean of 32 years.Assigned ProjectsThree assigned laboratory projects were given:1. An irrigation water quality project relating water quality parameters to the type of irrigation canal tested.2. A contaminated soil project focussing on the relationship of biological activity to soil contamination and other soil properties3. A

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Yellamraju Vikas; Tony Ramanello; Kurt Gramoll

wouldlike to have live discussions about the course or homework. With only 70-80 students in thecourse described in the paper, there were never enough students at any given time to make thechat rooms work effectively.The web board concept, while not new, is an extremely important component to the onlinecourses. With the web board, questions and discussions can be done similar to the interactionthat takes place in a normal classroom. In some respects, the web board discussions allowedmore students to participate in asking questions since there was no time limit or peer pressure notto ask questions. It also allowed students to ask questions when the questions arose, irrespectiveof time. Over the course of the semester, it was found that the time

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shirley Fleischmann

community, assess the strengths andinterests of your students and the faculty interested in participation. In our case, GrandValley had a number of engineering students who were serious cyclists. They providedthe expertise that we needed to begin fixing bikes and they provided contacts to a localbicycle shop that now provides materials at a discount and provides additional expertise.We also have a number of students who need exposure to the use of hand tools.Changing tires is a wonderful way to start in this program, and most bicycle repairs arequite easy to learn. Even students who have never worked on a bike and know littleabout hand tools can come and learn from their peers in a very non-threateningenvironment. The same students are able to gain

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 2: AI, Computation, and Electronics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Davis Ferriell, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

image processing that find markers in acomplex background or control a background to find an object in an image.An example of the first type of task—find markers in a complex background—is used in aproject where students create a semi-automated toy for a hypothetical child with a disability.The toy launches a ping pong ball at a target. The distance and angle to the target is found usingmachine vision, and then the launcher is turned and raised or lowered to reach the target. Todetermine the distance, fiducials are placed on the target and the students must write code to takean image of the target in a complex background and find the pixels in the image that correspondto the fiducials. The size and or distance in pixels between fiducials can be

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session 2 - Educator's experience and perspective

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuliana Flores, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington; Soraya Grace Barar; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

ofthematic analysis. The first round consisted of reading each of the three educator's reflectiondocuments week by week in chronological order beginning with week 1 and ending with week10. The reflections were read in order of Gabby, Paige, and Fiona. While reading through thecontent, Gabby wrote pen/paper notes of things that stood out and then prepared memos. Thisinitial round of coding led to the initial three themes -- existing material, the work of a secondsection, and acting on core values.The second round of coding consisted of writing out the initial themes on paper to referencethem while reading through the reflections again. While reading the reflections, Gabby wascoding for the themes. This time, Gabby read all of one educator's entire

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division WIPS 3: Courses and Curricula

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina ; Ehssan Nazockdast, University of North Carolina ; Daphne Klotsa , University of North Carolina

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

and becomes a larger percentage of the class.We have several activities that help students to develop their engineering identity and exposethem to real world examples of engineering in our lives. Students write a “microstory” tointroduce themselves by describing an event or experience with engineering that led them to takethis class. Student also conduct an interview with a non-engineer to discuss the impact ofengineering on their work.For another activity, students give a short presentation on an “innovation in engineering”. Thegoal is for students to explore the engineering considerations behind recent innovative products.These are fun and interesting two-minute presentations in which a student describes a recentengineering innovation. They

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 10

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Serena Mao, Harvey Mudd College; David Chen, Harvey Mudd College; Magdalena Jones, Harvey Mudd College; Aye Mon Htut-Rosales, Harvey Mudd College; Laura Palucki Blake; Leah Mendelson, Harvey Mudd College; Steven Santana, Harvey Mudd College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

course has an introductory Physics class in Mechanics and a Writing course asprerequisites. Participants consist of students enrolled in the course (1,2). Enrolled students aretypically in their first or second year and often select this class to explore engineering as theirmajor. Students learn engineering design and manufacturing techniques, utilizing their learningto solve ill-defined problems on teams. Projects require both conceptual design and tangible,mechanical solutions for an external client. In addition to engineering design, students learnteamwork through activities centered in giving and receiving feedback, resolving conflict, andleadership. Teams create contracts, meeting agendas, and project management documents as theywork

Conference Session

DSA Technical Session 7

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abdulrahman Alsharif, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Data Science & Analytics Constituent Committee (DSA), Diversity

sentiment analysis Its value comes fromanalyzing large amounts of text data [2]. For example, its applications have been used to analyzesocial media posts to track public opinion and identify trends (e.g., O’Connor [8]). In the field ofeducation, it has been applied to the analysis of student essays to provide feedback, teamworkreview analysis, and students’ feedback loop [1], [3], [9]. Another application is in the generationof natural language text (e.g., machine translation systems use NLP to translate text from onelanguage to another) [10]. In addition, it has been used to generate feedback on student writing [11] and to createpersonalized study materials [12]. It also can facilitate more personalized and effectiveinstruction [13]. By

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Student Growth & Professionalization

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory J. Mazzaro, The Citadel; Timothy Aaron Wood P.E., The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

faculty to develop linked engineering and writing classes; they emphasizedanalyzing data and tailoring communications to a particular audience [12]. Another schoolintegrated chemistry, mathematics, engineering, and physics [13]. They maintained a cohort ofstudents throughout all four courses, students worked in the same teams of four in all of theirclasses, they quickly became friends and formed study groups, and retention was improvedcompared to traditional (non-cohort, randomized) students.Several engineering programs have incorporated service learning into their courses, to emphasizethat the engineer’s role in society is to solve problems in the service of humanity [14, 15]. Somecolleges have partnered with local non-profit organizations [16

Conference Session

Student Success in ET

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Monika Herrmann, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Ahmet Turkmen

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

?” It was a multiple-answer question.Answers are categorized into six areas that reflect how AI tools are used in an academic setting.Students were asked to choose which of these options applied to them. Responses areas areillustrated in Figure 4.Figure 4. Representation of how students utilize AI.The data highlights the varying degrees to which AI tools are utilized across differenteducational aspects. The most common use is for understanding complex concepts, chosen by 14students, followed by 13 students using AI for research and information gathering. This suggestsa trend towards utilizing AI as a learning and discovery tool, like a search engine. While severalstudents also reported using AI to enhance writing quality and generate project

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

KENNETH WADE JACKSON

’ Honors Program to teach students howto work better on multidisciplinary teams in a multicultural context. The vehicle isan honors course, titled “Bringing a New Product to Market from Concept to Launch”[Jackson and Reichert, 2010]. In this course students design, organize write, presentand defend a launch plan for a virtual product. The virtual product is selected by theprofessor. Students are required to give brief project updates, maintain a journal,present their contribution and write a final report. These and peer evaluations countabout 65 percent of their grade. Students learn the basic body of knowledge of thedisciplines used in new product design and development. Quizzes and homeworkassignments on this material count about 35 percent of

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos Pineida, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico; Universidad Andres Bello, Chile.

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

: "Collaborative group discussion," item 12: "Present my work to everyone duringclass," and item 14: "Discuss my work with my teacher during class." These items indicate anincrease in the frequency of engagement in collaborative activities, such as group discussions andpresenting work to peers and teachers. This positive change suggests that students mayparticipate more actively in classroom interactions, share their ideas, and work with others.On the other hand, the rest of the items had a negative change. That is, they decreased in theirresponses about the frequency of the item. The items included item 10: "Interact with my teacherin synchronous sessions," item 11: "Interact with my classmates in each group activity," item 13:"Discuss my work with